Mark Sherman
Assistant Professor Of Computer Science at Emmanuel College (Boston)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMark Sherman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Boston with 13 years of experience blending education research, curriculum design, and hands-on engineering to champion computing as a liberal art. He builds and teaches data science and computing courses for liberal arts students, directs interdisciplinary educational initiatives, and investigates how learners debug and learn with block-based environments. A former MIT postdoc and App Inventor master trainer, he has contributed to the widely used MIT App Inventor codebase—enhancing camera functionality and tutorial image scaling—bringing practical mobile-development expertise to classroom innovation. His work spans K–college outreach, robotics, and assessment tool development, and he routinely translates research insights into scalable classroom materials and teacher professional development. Colleagues describe him as an educator-engineer who intentionally bridges research, pedagogy, and community-building to make computing accessible and expressive.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
c, scheme, java, python, javascript, c++, app inventor
Github Skills (8)
javas10
mobile-development10
native-android10
android10
android-development10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mit-cml/appinventor-sources
Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
MIT App Inventor Public Open Source
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 57 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily focused on enhancing the camera functionality within the App Inventor platform. They added a new property and implemented code to allow the front-facing camera to be selected. Additionally, the user addressed deprecated calls, updated the UI, and corrected typos within the code. Finally, they implemented changes to scale tutorial images to fit the window.
app-inventormit-app-inventorandroidmitinventor
marksherman/marksherman.github.io
May 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 72 pushes, 13 branches in 8 years 8 months
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